How to embrace an integrated approach to optimizing shop floor productivity

All manufacturing companies struggle with the need to maximize quality and performance, while continuing to minimize costs. However, there is no ‘magic bullet’ to achieving excellence.

Innovation can lead to excellence, and can be derived from different parts of an organization. People, process and technology are important tenets to explore for alternative designs and solutions in the pursuit of excellence. The ability to come up with alternate designs and methodologies, and assess the opportunity cost of not improving processes on your shop floor, is the first step into increasing visibility into the entire business for lasting and substantial change.